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SATURADY, NOVEMBER. 17, 1917
It is not much business that dis
tracts any man; but the want of
purity, constancy, and tendency to
wards God. —JERK MY TAYLOR.
MAYOR BOWMAN AND OTHERS
IN his civic activities covering a
period of several years, Mayor
J. William Bowman has never
shown greater earnestness and en
thusiasm than during the campaign
just closing in behalf of the War
Work of the Y. M. C. A. and the
Y. W. C. A. As chairman of the city
committee he has again demon
strated his ability as an organizer
and the results have established once
more the unselfish character of his
public service and the high Ideals
which animate him in all the work
In which he has so cheerfully en
gaged for the betterment of the
community. Mayor Bowman is the
type of citizenry to whom we must
look for the future development of
Harrisburg and his cpurse is an in
spiration for the other young men
who are proud of their city and who
want to help in every proper way.
As the Telegraph has -frequently
indicated, Harrisburg is fortunate in
the number and character of the
men who are constantly doing all
within their power to advance the
interests of the community as a
whole, and Mayor Bowman and
those like him are deserving of all
public honor.
Edward Bailey, chairman of the
county committee, who has labored
quietly but effectively; the many
good women who co-operated in a
great campaign, the zealous and in
dustrious men of the press, without
whose efforts the drive for funds
would not have been so successful,
and the forces of the two local in
stitutions directly concerned in the
canvass, all merit the congratula
tions which have been bestowed.
"ONWARD WITH GOD"
WHILE the Kaiser was mouth
ing his blasphemous "onward '
with God," the other day,
Bavaria, a German State, officially
abolished the Sabbath. t
No nation has ever done this and
prospered. One day of rest in seven,
given over to the worship of God,
is perhaps the earliest injunction of
Holy Writ.
"Onward with God" and a Godless
Sabbath form an odd combination.
No country ever set itself up as su
perior to God's commands and es
caped God's penalties for those who
break his laws. Germany is no ex
ception.
SIMPLY AMERICANS
MORE was accomplished in
Harrisburg the past week
than the raising of nearly
$70,000 for the Y. M. C. A. and
the Y. W. C. A. war work, laudable
though that achievement is. Prob
ably the greatest gain came to those
who gave their time and effort to
the active work of gathering the
money. Never has there been in
Harrisburg such a breaki. g down
of so-called class feeling as has been
brought about since war work has
thrown the people of all walks of
life together in unselfish public
service. Creed and religion, social
status and personal feelings all have
gone by the board or have been
merged In effort for the common
good. Men and women have met
on a new plane and each has
learned to respect his fellow.
Regardless of what certain sour
souls would have us believe, we
have a fine, upstanding lot of
people in Harrisburg and some of
us are just beginning to find this
out. The men and women who
labored shoulder to shoulder In the
drive now ended will never be to
ward each other as they were be
fore they engaged in this work.
Many of them have formed new and
binding ties of friendship; each has
learned to respect the other and all
of them have a higher regard for
the patriotic and open-hearted
people at large, whose generosity
made It possible for Harrisburg to
go "over the top" so handsomely In
the Y. M. C. A. drive.
This Is only a beginning. A lot
of superfluities as well as fool
notions are going to be wiped out
SATURDAY EVENING,
if this war continues any length and
the first fences to go down will be
many of the old social distinctions
by which many mistaken ones
among us used to set great store.
We are one people, bound by com
mon ties, whose prime interests and
fundamental aspirations, once we get
down to them, are identical, and
some of us are experiencing a grow
ing admiration for the wisdom and
insight of those who wrote that
thought Into the Declaration of
' Independence and the constitution
of the United States. In times like
these the tawdry trappings of rank
are laid away and we stand forth
simply as Americans.
Which is why wo are great among
the peoples of the world, and why
we are going to win this war. Tn
the laste analysis—when the final
test comes —it finds us all for one
and one for all.
NEXT YEAR'S GARDEN'S
NOW is the time to ho thinking of
next year's war gardens, and
Donald McCormick, who is at
the head of tlio Chamber of Com
merce garden department, with Shir
ley B. Watts as active director. Is
already outlying the campaign for
the coming spring.
War gardens played a big part in
the food program of Harriqjmrg last
summer, but the need for a more
careful conservation of the food sup
ply, - with urgent necessity for in
creasing it in every way possible, will
be far greater next year than it was
during the past season or is a pres
ent. Every family that can raise a
stalk of tomatoes or a hill of corn or
potatoes must be pressed into service
the coming spring and summer.
It is no longer merely the part of
thrift to have a war garden—it is a
necessity of vital proportions. If ev
ery family raises at least a part of
its own vegetable supply next year
we shall pull through without much
hardship, but if the war gardens are
neglected most of us are going to
have hungry days next winter and
our allies will be in sore distress for
lack of provisions.
Follow the lead of the war garden
committee; spend your spare even
ings this winter planning your war
garden, reading up on methods of
cultivation which the Department of
Agriculture will send you free of
charge, and in studying the seed
catalogues. You will find it an en
grossing as well as a profitable
amusement.
PUNISH THE SCAMPS
MAYOR BOWMAN was not so
busy with the Y. M. C. A.-Y.
W. C. A. drive this week that
he did not have time to act vigor
ously for the protection of United,
States soldiers visiting Harrisburg,
when it came to his attention that
they were being lured from paths "of
rectitude by harpies and panderers
making it their business to lie in wait
for the nian on furlough. The
Mayor's action in ordering the police
department to "take prompt meas
ures to stop this practice was not
only warranted by tlio conditions, but
in full keeping with the campaign
waged for war wonk funds here the
past few days. A city that has just]
given upward of $70,000 with which
to provide wholesome surroundings
for soldiers will stand heartily be
hind an executive who invokes the
law to restrain the vultures who'
would fatten at the expense of the'
soldier's money and manhood.
The wretch who ekes out a miser- j
able existence through the illegal
sale of whisky or by bartering 111 j
feuman virtue is abominable enough j
at any time, but in periods such as !
this he is intolerable. The nation is]
in sore need of workers—of pro-
I ducers. There is a job for everybody j
and places going begging. The
Mayor should sec to it that these*j
bootleggers and procurers go to jail 1
or go to work. Whatever punish-1
ment he metes out will have the I
approval of the public and the more!
drastic the better.
goldiers should be instructed to
treat these fellows after the manner
of one young man in uniform a week
or two ago. Approached by an in
dividual with a quart of liquor to
sell, he warned him off twice and. i
having fulfilled the Biblical Injunc
tion to submit twice to the tormen
tor, he then took the law into his
own hands and proceeded to give
the pest a dressing down that would
have done credit to John L. Sullivan
in his palmiest days, afterward turn
ing the bedraggled scoundrel over
to the tender mercies of a police
man.
GIVE US SHIPS
T' HE government apparently has
muddled sadly at tfie one point
in war preparations where
muddling counts most against allied
success, namely, the ship building
program. One incompetency after an
other has developed, largely due to
the selection of land lubbers to per
form a work that should have been
entrusted to men familiar with the
sea and its ways. Apparently, we are
now to have another period of water
ing and uncertainty. Why wait until
it develops? Why not dismiss the dis
cordant elements at once and recon
stitute the shipping board along lines
that will bring immediate results?
We must do so in the end, so why
not now, while time may be sav#d
and effort conserved?
We are not going to turn out any
thing like the '6,000,000 tons of ship
ping promised within the time speci
fied. We shall be fortunate if we
have 1,000,000 tons fit for use in the
submarine zone. The shipping board
has been debating and quarreling
during the moments it lias not been
occupied with telling the public that
the "shipping problem has been
solved." We have been regaled from
time to time with stories of unslnk
ablo vessels, wooden ships too small
and numerous to fall victims to sub
marines, concrete ships, ships with
out keels and a myriad of other won
ders, all designed to frustrate the Ü
boats and give America supremacy
on tho seat*. But none of them have
materialized Into fact.
Without ships our armies are pow
erless to go to France, or, if there,
would be terribly handicapped by lack
of supplies. Our great and Immediate
need is ships. All else must be sub
ordinated to efficiency in this de
partment.
Henry Ford, the latest addition to
the Shipping Board, hit tjie nail on
the head when he said:
The way to succeed is to find
one typo of ship that is best fitted
for work in the submarine zone
and which can be built fastest,
and center all effort on its con
struction. We have succeeded
• already in standardizing con
struction of airplanes. We are
helping with that in our plant.
What we want is to extend the
same idea to every other branch
of Government work.
""Politic* in.
By the Ex-Committeeman
!
The name of the Town Meeting
party has been pre-empted for the
state election next November by no
less than four groups of men who
have filed affidavits in the Dauphin
county court and at the Department
of the Secretary of the Common
wealth. Two of the pre-emptions de
clare flic, exclusive right to nomi
nate candidates under that name for
th-3 5-tato at la', ge. while the others
specify the right to elect a Governor,
Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of
Internal Affairs and Congressmen
at Larpe.
Three of the state-wide pre-emp
t'.cnt, were- made by Philadclphians,
the first being filed October 4 by
men active in the Town Meeting
movement. November 14 a group
of men did the same
thing and Philadelphians also filed
pre-emptions for the state at large
on November IV and 16.
The name of the Town Meeting
party was. pre-empted -in the Third
Montgomery district to-day. The
name has been pre-empted in Lu
zerne, Dauphin, Lackawanna,
Schuylkill and Montgomery counties
this week as well as in some smaller
counties earlier.
Officials of the State Department
slated to-day that inquiries failed to
show that may more poll books and
duplicate returns of votes cast by
soldiers were to come in. The time,
however, does not expire until No
vember 23. The making up of ex
pense accounts Is under way.
—Town Meeting party lawyers, it
is said, will attack the soldier and
sailor yote. when it is produced No
vember 23, before Judges Martin
and Finletter.Jn the election court,
in Philadelphia. Affidavits and let
ters written by soldiers or sailors,
in which the alleged activity in be
half of the Vare candidates by The
election commissioners is described,
are being prepared for presentation
by the court. The commissioners
were appointed by Governor Brum
baugh. At least two of the commis
sioners will be subpenaed, and the
independents will attempt to place
them on the witness stand to relate
how they supervised the vote at the
camps.
—Former Representative Daniel
J. Shorn has denied he had in
fluenced sailors at the Cape May, N.
J. barracks to v6te the Republican
ticket. Mr. Shern was the commis
sioner who supervised the vote
there: "TlWre is absolutely no
truth in the reports I tried to help
the Republican ticket," he said. "I
did nothing illegal.
—Although state leaders from all
parts of Pennsylvania are at Phila
delphia to-day for the McNichol fu
neral, it has been determined by
Senator Penrose that he will have no
council of war until Monday. The
Senator and others have deprecated
the talk of McNichol's successor while
he is unburied. Auditor General
Charles A. Snyder and City Solicitor
John P. Connelly, mentioned lor
leadership, have refused to talk
about It.
—Secretary of Internal Affairs
ITouck and Representative James F.
Woodward, of McKeesport, who is a
candidate for the nomination, are
both In Philadelphia to-day for the
funeral.
—Tlie Philadelphia Evening Bul
letin in Its interesting article on Mc-
Nichol says: "There were only two
public oliices that he occupied In
the course of his career—a seat in
Select Council years ago and a seat
in the State Senate—and in each he
was in the forefront of its leadership
because of strong sense and tlie na
tural faculty of impressing his
judgment 011 those around him. He
was not an easy man to trip up, even
when ho was crude in experience,!
and men who were showier undj
thought themselves abler than he
was, frequently found that his un
derstanding got into the heart of a
perplexing: question more quickly I
than theirs, throjving them com- i
pletely into the shade."
—Proof that nearly 25,000 ballots
cast in the election on November (i
were thrown aside by election boards
and not counted, was obtained yes
terday by the Town Meeting party,
says the North American. "In tho
first twenty-one wards of the city
records furnished by Henry P. Wal
ton, prothonotary of the Common
Pleas Court, showed a minimum
average of eighteen votes invalidat
ed in each division. Members of the
Town Meeting legal committee esti
mated last night that in the 481 divi
sions of those wards nearly 9,000-+>al
lots had been thrown out."
—The Town Meeting party has
overthrown the first majority credit
ed to a Republican by the unofficial
election returns in Philadelphia. The
victory was won in the twenty-sec
ond ward, and was for director of the
poor, a minor plum. Unofficially,
Pringle Borthwlck, Republican, was
elected, but a comparison of the vote
in the ward, and the checking up of
the tally, showed he was beaten tyy
John Marsdcn, Town Meeting party,
by nine votes.
—The Democrats having captured
all the county offices in Berks, an
nouncement of tho distribution of
patronage has been eagerly awaited.
Coroner-elect Schmel has appointed
Constable John Smith first deputy
and Dr. N. Z. Dunkelberger deputy
for the Kutztown district. Prothono
tary-elect Hintz has named W. E.
Bechtel as legal adviser and John G.
Rho&ds as deputy. Both are of
Reading. Recorder-elect Meek has
chosen B. Morris Strauss, of Mohn
ton, as legal adviser and Charles W.
Swoyer and Henry F. Kemp as depu
ties.
—The Philadelphia Republican
city committee, which is Vare con
trolled, held a special meeting last
nicrlit and eulogized Senator Mc-
Nichol.
—Tho new register of wills of
Northampton county. C. S. Messln
ger, took charge yesterday nnd Audl
lor General Snyder's men will start
the investigation on Monday.
—lrvln P. Knlpe, well known lioro,
HARRISBUHG TLBIII£RS TELEGRAPH
THE DAYS OF REAL SPORT BY BRIGGS
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has taken the place of the solicitor j
of Conshohocken, who has gone to,
war. |
—The Allegheny county official |
count is well under way and is said
that it will not show surprises. The
elections appear to have been em
phatic.
—William Walsh, former legisla
tor, will succeed Frederick Shoycr as
Philadelphia registration commis
sioner at ?4,000 a year. The governor
has decided to appoint him.
—Lackawanna county people are
investigating charges that election
commissioners to camps -tried to in
timidate voters.
—Lancaster county's Democratic
committee reported no contributions
and no payments.
—lndications are that the close
ness of the soldier vote and its ef
fect on a number of cpntest's
throughout the state will cause Gov
ernor Martin G. Brumbaugh to post
pone making any appointments of.
consequence for another week or)
two. A visit of Ex-Lleutenant-Gov-'
ernor John M. Reynolds, of Bedford,!
here this week to attend the meeting
of the Commission to Codify the|
Banking Laws, caused a revival of;
rumors that he was being consid-;
ered for one of the vacancies on the
Public Service Commission, but he
smiled and said he did not know
about it. Gossip here is that Wil
liam A. Magee, who has been men
tioned occasionally for reappoint
ment,' is not anxious for the job and
intends to take up practice of law,!
specializing in public utility cases.
The Governor has judges for Phila
delphia and Washington counties to
name and some county places.
—Tho soldier vote returns have
been rather a surprise here. It was
expected that all would be in hand
promptly, but commissioners are
aparently taking their time. Some
of the commissioners tell stories in
dicating that, there was a lack of
system and the fact that no commis
sioner seems to have much knowl
edge of where ballots went and eome
turned in poll books without any
results being given rather bears out
impressions. The commissioners
will get ten cents a mile for each
mile traveled from capital to camp
and back again by short route, with
allowance lor the visits here for in
structions. The Auditor General's;
Department will co-operate with the i
Secretary of the Commonwealth in I
making up the travel accounts and '
tho printing department will turn in i
bills for the ballots and other work,,
which will run up the cost. Twenty
five thousand dollars was appropri
ated.
LABOR NOTES
Fur workers in Minneapolis have
secured the union shop and 50-hour
week.
Memphis (Tenn.) Printing Press
men's Union hasiSigned a three-year
! agreement with employers. Wages
j are increased for journeymen and ap- 1
prentices.
Proprietors of Washington, D. C.,
• military tailor shops have signed a
j union shop agreement presented by
j the Journeymen Tailors' Union.
Fermoy (Ireland) carpenters have
j asked for an increase in wages of
seven shillings ($1.75) a week, and
have gone on strike as It has not
been granted.
Five Birkenhead (England) ap
prentices who went on strike with
the boilermakers were ordered to
pay costs for falling tp comply with
the terms of* their apprenticeship.
The net income of the Pennsylva
nia State Workmen's Insurance Fund
for 1916, including interest, was
$803,543.90, and tho prediction is
made that this year it will be Sl>-
250,000.
Articsvllle (Okla.) contractors
have signed a union shop agreement
with their inside electrical workers.
Wages are Increased 10 cents an
hour for eight hours a day.
FIGHTING IN BELGIUM
An Illuminating explanation of
just why fighting in Belgium is hard
er and more trying than fighting ih
France is given in Major lan Hay
Beith's new book, "All In It," the
continuation of "The First Hundred
Thousand," just published by Hough
ton Mifllln Company.
"Trench-life In Belgium Is an en
tirely different proposition from
treneh-llfe In France, he says. "The
undulating country offers an Infinite
choice of unpleasant surroundings.
Here (In Belgium) the line follows
the curve of each little hill. . . Al
most every spot in either line is
overlooked by some adjacent ridge,
or enfiladed from some adjacent
trench. It Is disconcerting for a
methodical young officer after cau
tiously scrutinizing the trench upon
his front through a periscope, to find
that the entire performance has been
visible (and his entire person ex
posed) to the vlow of a Boche trench
situated on a hill-slope upon his tm
inodlato left"
THE PEOPLE'S
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WANTS BRIDGE CURBED
To the P.ditor of the Telegraph:
Some highways are more danger
ous than others and the most dan
gerous should always be safeguarded
to prevent accidents, this will install
Safety-First to act forfait preceding
preventions and accidents must be
superseded with the necessary im
provements to prevent before we can
have safty-flrst, because all unre
strained vehicle-traffic on dangerous
highways will sooner or later strike
its death-blow to some one least de
serving it.
We must recognize prevention
some time, if not first, but surely
will it seek safety last after addition
al expense has added itself auto
matically to first cost and finally our
official authority must concede to
prevention by making the necessary
improvements for safety sake.
Prevention needs no cure and cure
cannot cure after a soul is sent Into
Eternity, hence we must first make
the needed improvement to prevent,
by first laying the foundation for
at primarily fundamental princi
■ pie of safety to rest on. This will
prevent accidents and thus give
safety-first a chance to live and let
live, as its soul-duty unto itself and
others. This keeps duty ahead of
•afety-flrst and to prevent accidents
is safety always.
And to safeguard the Mulberry
Street Bridge, let me recommend a
safeguard curb on both sides of the
bridge, built of reinforced concrete
two feet, six inches high and twelve
inches in diameter. • This would
keep vehicles in the street and the
walking public could at least have a
chance to get away, before another
accident could involve the loss of
life.
Will be glad to furnish our offi
cial authority with any information
as may be required to further expe
dite its construction on an econom
ical basis. Yours truly,
J. G. H. Kohlhass.
Y. M. C. A. WORK
To the Editor of the Telegraph:
I read an article in the Coal Trade
| Journal, November 7, of which I scind
i you clipping. I hope you can give
| some notice to the matten.
There seems to be coming in this
country a rather tardy recognition
and appreciation of the great work
that is being done by the Young
Men's Christian Association. This
wonderful up-to-date humanitarian
agency is reaching out with its bene
ficent influence to all parts of the
civilized world. It is no exaggeration
to say that the modern Y. M. C. A.,
perfect in its organization, practical
i in its methods and sincere in its ef
forts. is the most potent ethical and
religious force of the present flay in
meeting the needs of young men in
almost every country and very clime.
The clipping follows:
"One phase of the Y. M. C. A.
work developed largely within recent
years is the very earnest endeavor
being made to improve the conditions
that surround the young men who
work in and about the mines. In the
bituminous regions of Pennsylvania
the young men are being reached
particularly through the medium of
the first aid teams, in the organiza
tion of which the local associations
have expended much time and effort.
Through the influence obtained in
this way many of the members of the
various teams arc gradually led into
other beneficent activities of tho as
sociation. Special importance is
placed upon the teaching of English
to foreigners, who constitute a large
mojority of the mine workers, so that
they may have a clear comprehen
sion of the advice and instruction im
parted to them, and thousands of
them in and about the mines are now
being educated In that branch.
"In view of the continuous' ener
getic efforts made to Improve mining
conditions, as evidenced by the com
prehensive mining code, the increas
ed number of state mine inspectors,
the first aid work, anH the safety first
movement, It is gratifying to know
that an additional force, intelligent,
practical and ceaseless in its endeav
ors, is gradually making itself felt
in the mining communities, not only
In botterlng the social and moral
conditions but also In bringing to the
workers, through education and
suggestion, a realization of the great
dangers of their occupation that are
an ever-present menace to thoir lives
and health. .
"It Is undoubtedly a. fact that the
work of the Y. M. C. A. is not only
Improving the community life in the
coal regions but is also instrumental
In making working conditions safer
for all classes of workers."
Y. M. C. A. ADMIRER.
TAKING A JOKE
Learning to take a Joke Is much
like learning to take medicine; It
can bo done, but It Is not pleasant.
—Detroit Newa.
Fire Department Efficiency
To the Editor of the Telegraph:
I saw a piece in your paper oil
November 14 to the effect that Fire
Commissioner Gross intends to senrl
the fire apparatus drivers to school
to learn how to take oare of their
apparatus. Half of these men are
to go at one time and the other half
the next time.
Therefore when one half of these
men are absent from the Engine
Houses- the efficiency of the fire de
partment is cut fitty per cent as
.only half of the apparatus then re
sponds to an alarm of fire.
The way this is generally worked
by a company with two pieces of ap
paratus Is that the driver who is on
duty takes the chemical truck to the
fire and if the engine Is needed he
then returns to the house and takes
the engine: but in this way the en
gine is delayed about twenty or
twenty-five minutes in getting to the
fire. A building can burn down in
that time.
The importance of having a fire
engine respond immediately to an
alarm of fire is shown by the fire
at Number One rolling mill of the
Central Iron & Steel Company on
August 12, 1916.
No. 1, 6 and 9 engines responded to
box 12 which was sent in for this
fire.
Engines 1 and 6 were out of ser
vice and one of engine nine's horses
was sick.
When the men arrived that had
only ten pounds water pressure and
ould do nothing until the engines
'arrived. Number nine borrowed a
horse and number three engine was
called. After they arrived the fire
was soon put out but not till after
it had done serious damage )vhich
could have been prevented had an
engine responded immediately when
the alarm was sent in.
I am not writing this to knock on
Chief Kindler as the chief is one
of the best chiefs that Harrisburg I
evAr had. The chief not only knows
how to fight fire but also knows how
to handle volunteer forces which
many men do not know.
All of us like him and ninety per
cent of us are hoping that ,he will
be retained in office by the new
council.
A CITY FIREMAN.
OUT OF LABYRINTHS ,
If you ever find yourself environed
with difficulties and perplexing cir
cumstances, out of which you are
at a loss how to extricate yourself,
do what is right and be assured that
that will extricate you the best way
out of the worst situations. Through
you cannot see, when you take one
step, what will be the next, yet fol
low -truth, justice and plain dealing
and never fear their leading you out
of the labyrinth in the easiest man
ner possible. The knot which you
thought a Gordian one will untie it
self before you. Nothing is so mis
taken as the supposition that a per
son is to extricate himself from a
difficulty by Intrigue, by chicanery,
by dissimulation, by trimming, by an
untruth, by an injustice. This In
creases the difficulties tenfold.—
Thomas Jefferson.
For the Men at the Front
Lord God of Hosts, whose mighty
hand
Dominion holds on sea and land,
In Peace and War Thy will we see
Shaping the larger liberty.
Nations may rise and nations fall.
Thy changeless purpose unites them
all.
When death flies swift on wave or
field,
P.e Thou a sure defense and shield,
Console and succor those who fall
And help and hearten each and all.
O hear a people's pra v er for those
Who fearlesu face tl>ir country's
foes
For those who weak and broken lie,
In weariness and agony,
Great Healer, to their beds of pain
Come, touch and make them whole
again.
O hear a people's prayer and blc3B
Thy servants In their hour of stress.
For those to whom the call shall
come,
We pray Thy tender welcome home.
The toll, the bitterness nil past,
We trust them to Thy love at last.
O hear a people's prayer for all
' \Vho, nobly striving, nobly fall.
For those who minister and heal
And spend themselves, their skill,
their real.
Renew their hearts with Christ-like
faith *
And guard them from disease and
death.
And in Tlilne own good time, Lord
send
Thy peace on earth till time shall
end.
, —^Exchange.
NOVEMBER 17, 1917.
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IK ""JVKTUU
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Although Thanksgiving Is only a
few days off hardly a "gobble" Is
heard from the great American bird,
and the chances are that few of us
will hear any. A buying agent has
jus£ canvassed the Lehigh and Cum
berland valleys and some of the far
mers asked him what he meant by
turkey. The bird is almost extin
guished. This gentleman predicts
that turkey, live weight, will sell lor
as much as 40 cents a pound, the
price of a dressed bird last year, and
the supply, at that, Will be meager.
*• * *
I remember, I remember Thanks
giving Day of yore
Our turkey gobbled his last gob and
gamely shed his gore;
The pumpkin Held gave up its king,
mince pie was plenty too;
O days of they haunt me now
with ever brighter hue.
For now a hall room two-by-twice is
what I call my home,
There Isn't space to stretch my legs
or elevate my dome,
And as for eating turkey on old
Thanksgiving Day,
Lucky, I, to get cold fish or a sand
wich made of hay. •
• * •
Who pities a chicken thief? No
one. This one was 73 years old and
gave the name of Gottlieb Miller, a
name decidedly Teutonic. He had
been robbing the roosts around Mt.
Penn, in Berks county, and a chick
en fancier set a trap for him. He
plugged. up every opening to his
coops except one screened window.
This screen he electrified with a
strong current with the result that
Gottlieb was caught next night by an
alarm, system, two chicks strangled
in his hands. Seven chicks with their
heads twisted off lay on the ground.
Gottleib will be a long time without
chicken now.
OUR DAILY LAUGH
highijy
ESTIMABLE. V.I
Half a loaf is Sk J m
sr ,h,n Mil
There's no . v A
doubt about the r- J '
•respect to which \
half a loaf is """ "■ y~' J | ■■
entitled. It cost i |
as much as a \
wliolo loaf used ]
tend to be thirty
<fl until after I am
I'HOOP OF _ a ■ —.m
BEAUTY. U
She's a beautl
fill woman, isn't j ' j
Beautiful. I
should *ay she Is. Ij|l
You just ought to \|?B jR
have heard the
mushy way the |/ff \jljj
grouchy old boss VajpN-*
spoko to Bv<T.
1
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M REACH.
ft V\ A Wfi Duolc—lt's aw
-1 ful. Grub Is go
if Ing up again!
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Announcement that Harrlsburg la
to have an Infantry company of the
Reserve Mllltla keeps up a chain of
military organizations at this plac®
from the French and Indian war,
when John Harris built the first fort
on the Susquehanna about what Is!
now Harris park and a couple of j
blocks adjoining: and organized the
settlers and traders and
hereabouts into a company. In
neighborhood were the Paxtangi
boys, who gave the Quakers iome|
uneasy moments for a time and liv(
the days of the Revolution the com-i
pany from Harris Ferry and Paxton:
church was among the early ones to;
respond to the call for moblllzatlc£f]
at Cambridge, and some of Its meWj
died before Quebec. When the Rev-i
olution ended there were three com—<
panles here, and they went as far
Carlisle in the Whisky Insurrection.)
They included Captain Wallace's In
fantry; Captain Ainswortli's riflemen
and Captain Devin's Infantry, each)!
unit about fifty men. About 18?)0 It
Is presumed that Harrlsburg had a
t. - oop of cavalry, a comYmnv of rtfle
| nn ' l " company of infantry.
\ When the War of 1812 broke out
mere were two companies, but the
city had many men in that struggle,
Including General John Forster.
' J°bn Roberts, Robert Harris,
Chris. Glelm and others, and com
panies commanded by Thomas Wal
ker, R. M. Craln, Johrf Carotliers,
Jeremiah Rees, Thomas Mcllhenny,
Peter Snyder, John B. Moorehead,
James Todi], Richard Knight. John
Elder, Isaac Smith, Philip Ferfder
nofi and Gawan Henry* These men
were active in military affairs here
one hundred years ago and organ
ized the Harrlsburg Rifles and Dau
phin , Guards after the war. In
the war with Mexico Harrlsburg
sent out the Cameron Guards, com
manded by E. C. Williams and be
tween that time and the Civil War
I MilT re were three companies here.
The Harrlsburg Zouaves were the
< first company to go from here Into
the Civil War, and after that struggle.
In which Harrlsburg had a high per
centage of its sons, there were four
companies for a time. Then came
the City Grays whose record is un
broken from 1872. The Governor's
Troop, successor of the Revolution
ary Cavalrymen, and the Capital
City Cavalry of the Twenties date,
from 18§8.
* * •
Speaking of military matters the
history of this city is tilled with men
tion of infantry companies and
I troops of cavalry and it Is interesting
j to note that there were organizations
of riflemen in the early days. This
has always been a center for marks
men and they made themselves noted
'n the Revolution and in other wars.
In the Civil War there were compan
ies from this section which were
mighty proficient with guns. The
early records of men who served In
the wars from this city are extensive,
but they will hq,ve some rivals this
year.
• •
"The rates that are charged In this
city for hauling trunks to hotels are
a scandal and 1 am not surprised
that traveling men are asking peoplo
to come to the station and look at
samples Instead of having trunks
carted to hotels," said a commercial
man who makes Harrlsburg ' often.
"The rates here are going up, but
why I do not know. Tt used to cost
a quarter to take a trunk or a grip
front the station to a hotel. Now
its fifty to seventy-five. Ido not pro
fess to know the scale of charges, 'out
I have heard of a man who was
soaked a dollar and a half to lve
, a trunk taken from the station to Ills
hotel. This does not help your city,
either," \ 1
Stato Game Commission officers
here had to give rush orders to
printers to supply additional hunters'
license blanks and almost daily sup
' lilies of the salmon colored arm
bands have been going to treasurers
; of counties in response to urgent re
' quests. In at least a dozqn counties
: the issuance of licenses thus far has
; gone over the total for last year and
the payments at the State Treasury
; have been on a scale that recalls the
' first year of the operation of the law
in 1013. On one day last week,
$24,000 was received in hunters' li
censes. but this record paled before
$40,000 from six counties, one of
which had almost $ 10,000. These
payments will continue to come in
until the end of the season, which Is
now In full swing with the deer slay
ing time to come. The issuance thus
far is believed, in spite of the num
ber of men who havo gone to war
and who ordinarily hunt, to be over
the 290,000 mark of*last year and
that it will probably be around, if
not above, the mark of $298,972
made in 1914. The first year the
licenses numbered 302,000.
Prosecutions for violation of ll
censo laws have been going on, but
the number has not been groat.
Game protectors have been bonding
efforts to round up "bad actors" who
havo been bragging about the way
' <eu defying the law and
telling what thoy are going to do.
• •
Dr. Joseph Kalbfus. Secretary ot
the Stato Game Commission, has tak
en to the woods. Dr. Kalbftts Is one
of the best hunters in tho state, but
of late he has been going afield and
aforest to conserve game. Aboat this
season when the wild turkeys are on
tho wing and all kinds of game Is in
season, except deer, tho commission
secretary goes out after the gamo
hogs. And he generally gets them.
| WELL KNOWN PEOPLE |
—E. JT. Stotesbury has offered a
flag for each school making a good
showing in tho Liberty Loan In
Philadelphia.
—Senator P. W. Snyder was cap
talij of one of tho teams In the T.
M. (V A, drlvo In the I loliidaysburg
district.
, —J. T,. Minlok, prominent Altoona
man, is colonel of tho Homo Defense
police of Blair county.
—Tudor It. Williams, fuel admin
istrator for tho Scranton district, is
an engineer and is said to be familiar
with much of tho coal conditions In
tho anthracite field.
—William M. Bennlnger, member
of the House from Northampton, is
now the father of seventeen children.
The last arrived a few days ago.
—Josph R. Grundy, the Bristol
manufacturer, Is reported to have
ono of the largest flocks of
hens In tho stato.
f DO YOU KNOW~ ]
That Harrlsburg Is shipping
largo amounts of produce, raised
right near hero, to New York?
HISTORIC HARItISBXTRG
French traders had a post at the
mouth of Paxton creek for a dozen
years before William Penn granted
[the IttuU hereabout* to John Harrla